{"id":218438,"date":"2025-10-16T23:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218438\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:32:04","slug":"mlb-approves-roster-move-for-blue-jays-anthony-santander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218438\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB approves roster move for Blue Jays’ Anthony Santander"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 16, 2025, 07:28 PM ET<\/p>\n

Anthony Santander<\/a>‘s postseason for the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> ended Thursday, with Major League Baseball approving a roster substitution for the ailing outfielder.<\/p>\n

Santander has been battling a back injury that led him to being scratched from Game 2 of the AL Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners<\/a>. He started in right field in Game 3, but was replaced after two at-bats in an eventual 13-4 Toronto road win that cut its series deficit to 2-1.<\/p>\n

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MLB’s announcement came a little over an hour before Game 4 on Thursday night in Seattle.<\/p>\n

The league said Dr. Gary Green, its medical director, confirmed Santander’s injury “after a full review of the medical information.” He was replaced by Joey Loperfido<\/a> on Toronto’s roster.<\/p>\n

By rule, Santander can’t return for the Mariners series or for the subsequent series if the Blue Jays advance, meaning he’s ineligible to play in the World Series.<\/p>\n

Santander signed a $92.5 million, five-year contract with Toronto last offseason but missed almost four months because of a left shoulder injury. He hit .175 with six home runs and 18 RBIs in 54 games.<\/p>\n

He was hitting .200 (3 for 15) with no homers, 2 RBIs and 5 strikeouts in five games this postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 16, 2025, 07:28 PM ET Anthony Santander‘s postseason for the Toronto Blue Jays ended Thursday, with Major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-218438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}